NORWAY – In the early morning hours of Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, left us after a long illness.
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Larry Stanley Castner
MINOT – Larry Stanley Castner, 75, a longtime resident of Minot, passed away peacefully Wednesday Feb. 6, 2019, at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston surrounded by his loving family.
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Walter Andrew Textor, Jr.
LEWISTON – Mr. Walter Andrew Textor, Jr., 89, died Wednesday Feb. 6, 2019, at the Central Maine Medical center in Lewiston.
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Robert E. Tardif
LEWISTON – Robert E. Tardif, 58, of Lewiston, died on Tues, Feb. 5, 2019 at the Hospice House in Auburn after a six week battle with cancer.
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Leo A. Gagne
SOUTH PARIS – Leo A. Gagne, 89, of South Paris, formerly of Zephyr Hills, Fla., died early Tuesday morning, Feb. 5, 2019, at the Maine Veterans Home in South Paris.
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Briefly: Local
Library to hold Scrabble tourney AUGUSTA — A Scrabble tournament will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Lithgow Public Library, 45 Winthrop St. The snow date for this event is Saturday, Feb. 23. The tournament is being hosted by the Literacy Volunteers of Greater Augusta. Preregistration is required. Interested folks can visit […]
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College hockey: Hawkey, Friars shut out Black Bears, 1-0
ORONO — The University of Maine was shutout for the fifth time this season, losing a 1-0 Hockey East game to 11th-ranked Providence College Friday night at Alfond Arena. Hayden Hawkey made 28 saves for his sixth shutout of the season, winning his 64th career game to tie the Providence record set by Mario Proulx […]
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Deficit spenders deny future unpleasantness
WASHINGTON — Let’s coin a new law of politics. Call it Neuman’s Law after Alfred E. Neuman of Mad magazine fame, whose philosophy is, “What, me worry?” Neuman’s Law postulates that there is never a good time to raise taxes or cut federal spending. This explains why, since 1961, the annual federal budget has been […]
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Indoor track: York sweeps Western Maine Conference titles
Nate Gendreau of Gray-New Gloucester High School competes in the long jump at the Western Maine Conference indoor track championships at the USM Field House on Friday. (Portland Press Herald photo by Brianna Soukup). GORHAM — Greely High distance running standout Marin Provencher could have been speaking for many of her fellow athletes at the […]
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H-1B program ripe for major overhaul
Americans don’t usually think of technical professionals as “guest workers,” yet at any one time, there are more than a half-million foreigners holding tech jobs in the U.S. They are here thanks to the H-1B visa program. H-1B, so the official spiel goes, addresses an alleged shortage of “highly skilled” Americans to fill jobs “requiring […]